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Monday, May 13, 2013

Ten Tech Terms We Can Now Retire

By Virgil R. Carter

In our continuing effort to keep you current and up
to date (and to prevent your endless embarrassment), we present the ten tech
terms we can now retire and forever forget using again.

Actually, this list comes from ChiefExecutive.net
and a recent article from our British friends at the Daily Telegraph.The terms that the editors say are well past
their useful life are:

Cyberspace:What does it mean, anyway? It was first used in 1984 by Science
fiction author William Gibson, who defined it as “a consensual hallucination
experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by
children being taught mathematical concepts”. He later said described the term
as “essentially meaningless”. Let that be an end to it.

Artificial
intelligence:Applied broadly – for every clever new thing
people teach computers to do – it becomes meaningless. Applied strictly – for
when computers really can reason like humans – we are still a very long way
off.

Surf the web:When the internet was new, you could frivolously look around to
see what silly things were there. Now that everything is online, what you can
do while “surfing” ranges from the very silly to the very serious.

Webcam: Increasingly they are built into computers.
Besides, the term was ruined for everyone in the UK by David Cameron’s
appropriation for Webcameron.

Tape (verb):It has been a long time
since any tape was involved. But what else do you say? Sky+it, TiVo-it?

Hyperlink:Should go the way of the omnibus, a link no longer needs to be
hyper.

Smartphone:As phones all become smart, soon or later we will have to drop
the prefix, or think of a new term altogether.

Set-top box:With the flatness of today’s television, not much can perch on
the top.

Floppy disk:Nobody uses them anymore, and they never were floppy anyway.

Search engine:Nobody does use it in
the real world; they use the name of whichever engine happens to be their
favorite. If you want some examples, Bing it.

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